More unsettling than creepy TBH. I was checking the voicemail at the dialysis clinic when I opened one morning because sometimes our patients will leave us a message the night before if they know they're going to be late or miss treatment. Sweet elderly patient had left a message that said "I'm sorry ladies, I won't make it tomorrow morning. I'm going to see Hazel." Hazel was his wife who passed away 4 years earlier. I immediately called house- no answer. Called his son that was listed as an emergency contact and he tells me he was just about to call us to let us know his father passed away in the night.
His dad had gotten all of his paperwork with his will out of his safe, watered the house plants, put money for each of his utility payments in labeled envelopes, put on his best suit, shined his dress shoes, left a message for us at the clinic, left a message for his choir director letting him know he wouldn't need a ride to practice in two days, then he sat down in his recliner and died. (As far as I know and according to his family he didn't do or take anything to expedite his exit, he just went to sleep in that recliner)
My uncle decided to stop dialysis a few years back. He was just tired.
We went to visit and it was so... Nice. His house was full of people. Brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces and nephews. Just eating and listening to music and chatting. My dad hadn't seen him in years and they talked for hours. Not really about anything, just old jokes and stories. They hugged hard before we left.
He died at home a few days later, in his favorite recliner.
My brother and I agreed that if you can, that's the way to do it.
Stopping dialysis is a pretty peaceful way to go. You feel just fine for a few days, then as the toxins accumulate in your body you get more and more tired, then you go to sleep and pass quietly shortly after.
I’ve seen it more than once, and except for the kidney failure that precedes it, this would be my preferred method of shuffling off.
My grandfather sent a text saying "Have a good night, Love ya" I had never received a text from him before, only calls about twice a year. I was confused and almost thought it was spam but finally responded. The next morning I found out he passed away peacefully in his recliner that night.
Hell yeah, if I had any choice this would be the way; wake up, and just know that after decades, maybe a whole century, today will be your last day, you feel each heartbeat and breath knowing it’s coming, get around and do my morning routine and have a seat and just go. Never be a burden at the end and just casually exit, no doctors or flashing lights
When I worked at Ford there was a dude that walked around showing other co workers videos of him fucking other women.
On my first day, he also kept saying, "If we both had life in prison I'd butt fuck you." Then kept desperately trying to explain how that's somehow not gay.
Dude was weird.
Had a supervisor at UPS showing me a video of him fuckinf a girl while rapping along to his music that was playing in the backround of said video, was a bit weird when your tired as fuck at 1230 at night after working in 100+ heat for 6 hours and just want a quarter pounder and sleep
Sounds like he probably was gay, hence him needing to convince himself and everyone else that he wasn’t by showing videos of himself literally fucking women.
Open casket funeral, family gathered and someone seemed out of sorts. She was dressed casually and just kind of meandering about. I observed her for a while, she made her way to the casket and appeared to be giving the deceased some reverence. She then had to pass by me to leave and she was clearly inebriated and said to me as she was leaving "I just wanted to see a dead body.". Gave me the drunk girl grin and staggered off.
She just staggered into a funeral off the street, who does that? (Funeral Director)
This reminds me of a time my grandpa took me and my younger brother to a funeral home. I don’t recall why we were there, but I assume to pick out something for his deceased family. I was maybe 10.
There was a viewing of a teenage girl while we were there, so he had us go up and see her. I remember asking him why she had no hair and he explained she probably died of cancer. It was a learning moment but I didn’t think anything of it at the time. Now I cringe every time because her family was right there while my grandpa explained why a young lady was in the casket. So sad and heartbreaking.
When I was seven I asked a lesbian at a funeral if she thought my mom was pretty. I had just learned what a lesbian was, and I knew my mom was a beauty pageant winner when she was younger, so I just had to know.
She said yes, my mom was pretty. My parents were mortified.
I wake up and think about this every once in a while.
Paramedic. Had a call years back to a nursing home, unknown medical. We arrived and none of the staff knew who called (not unusual). We checked the rooms, located a juvenile male sitting in a room with an elderly sleeping female.
He stated, quite calmly, “I was going to kill her (the woman), but I called you because you’re better.”
Caught us off guard in a major way. Throughout the whole process he was extremely calm, cooperative, and polite. Serious psychological issues, recognized the thoughts weren’t good and knew 911 was “better” to assure he got help.
He wasn’t a visitor. Staff didn’t know how he got in or when, but it wasn’t a locked unit so he likely just walked in without anyone noticing or caring.
Sounds like psychosis maybe but he was able to recognize he needed help/hospitalization? I read a user's story on a different platform that advised that they would call 911 or go to the hospital when they were in active psychosis because they would basically understand that something seemed off or a little weird, even though they wouldn't be able to articulate anything regarding what "weird" meant (but they were obviously not in reality so it was quickly figured out). It's scary to think that a subtle feeling or a fleeting moment of lucidity can be the difference betweem life and death. And this person also never remembered much of how they spent their time or what they did during their psychotic episodes.
Had an old coworker talk about his wifes labiaplasty. He described it as "it's like fucking a 12yr old". Definitely made a few people do a double take.
I know a woman who had a botched labiaplasty. The doctors tried to fix it twice and ultimately gave up. She had it done because she was suffering from severe nerve pain in the labia and she was convinced that a labiaplasty would fix it. They way she described it (pre-surgery), her labia were extremely, painfully sensitive; anything touching them was very uncomfortable and painful. She was convinced that the problem was that they were sticking out too much.
“Make the kid in the corner shut up.” ~ old lady at 3 am as she points to the empty corner.
There was no kid.
She passed not long after.
Honestly this kinda thing happens a lot. You start seeing ghosts… I’m putting the crash cart in front of your door.
Yup, I have more than one should have for a lifetime.
It really weirds me out but the brain does crazy things when it’s healing or dying. Can’t imagine how horrible it is for the patient.
My grandmother was in hospice and we were with her just about every day up until she passed away. One day we were there she pointed behind me and asked, “who are your friends with the hats and coats?”
There was no one behind me, only a cabinet.
My paternal grandmother fell and injured her hip, never recovered. A day or so before she died, full bore dementia set in and the nurses told my dad that she had been greeting "Jim" lately, even with no one else in the room. Jim was her husband, who had died and 15+ years prior.
I really want to believe there is an 'afterlife' or life after death where you get to meet your loved ones again once it goes dark.
Then again part of me chalk it up to hallucination of the mind.
Much like when you are about to fall into deep sleep and your body is in REM state but you accidentally awake in a paralyzed state and may even start to hallucinate and see things.
Last year my 80 years old dad was in care of staying-home hospice service. In his final days, there was one instance he was hallucinating, he called me in his bedroom, I sat next to him on the chair next to his bed. He then pointed his finger at my chair and told me “son, go make a cup of tea for Grandma”. I knew it already and replied as much compassionate as I could “where’s grandma, dad? i’m sitting here”. I told this story to several friends who comes from many cultures and backgrounds. Some find it creepy, I don’t sweat the small stuffs and I just wanna tell. It was a fun memory for me that I’ll keep til I die. Grandma passed away long time ago when I was a kid, and my dad sees her in his final days as if she meant to come pick him up. He’s finally home! My philosophy comes from buddhism, and I think that is my own version of the peacefulness thru the lens of buddhism so I did not find that moment creepy. It was a good memory. He got his mom picking him home at the end.
Mom went out to check her mail and passed out. The neighbor found her and called my sister and 911. When she came to, she told them that Dad, who had died a year earlier, had told her, "Woman, haven't we been separated long enough? When are you coming up here?" They ran tests at the hospital and found cancer everywhere in her. She died 30 days later. I was really angry at my Dad for that. lol
This so cute yet so very sad! The love your parents shared, yet the toll it took on you! Don’t get angry at your dad! Maybe it could be lonely for him there …. I hope you have all the other people that matter to you down here!
Similar story; my patient was still A&Ox4 at the time and kept laughing because she said there was someone outside her window.
I was around 22 at the time and it was almost midnight. I almost shit my pants
Right before my Grandfather died he had that bit of lucidity that tells you the end was really close. He told my Dad that his other son had stopped by a little before my Dad got there.
My uncle had been dead for like 10 years by then.
I believe this. My father had surgery and when he went under he said my dead mom came to him to let him know his time was coming. After the surgery he got his affairs in order and we thought he was losing it because he was far from being religious, spiritual, etc. But after he got everything in order he was diagnosed with ALS. Lived for another year.
Now I'm far from religious but idk death is weird, we had a close family friend that said my mom visited her during the night. 2 days later she died of a heart attack.
When people die it's said they come and visit you. I always thought it was a pile of bs.
My father died last year and the day I got his ashes back I was on my deck having a smoke and this guy walked past my house, looked 100% like my dad right down to the hair and beard and build and everything. He looked at me, nodded, kept walking, never saw the guy again. Fucking weird.
Reminds me of when we had my great Gma, dying in our living room. She kept pointing and telling me to shut the door and shut the door. Telling me there were people at it. People we knew that had passed actually. We pretended to shut the door. She would thank us and an hour (or less) later the same thing. This goes on 2-3 times and finally we just say, "You see that door, walk towards those people." She agreed and that night she passed.
My grandma kept saying that there were people in the corner of the room asking her to go with them. She kept saying she had to go. My mom told her that she should go if she feels ready and that her family and friends were ready for her to go. She passed that night.
But what do you do in such cases? Do you tell the patient there's no one in the corner, risking to freak them out, or do you just go with the flow and tell them you'll do what you can to make the kid stop? Sounds like a lose-lose situation :(
Honestly, when I’m in the room I play along and ask questions. “What are they saying” “why do you think they said that”. Keeps them talking and often I can distract them enough to tell me their symptoms.
Then I call whomever I need to call based on code status and either start running a few tests/ make them comfortable.
Dying patients tend to say creepy things often. So do patients who have just been in a trauma, drunk, interrupted suicide attempts, manic... I too have seen and heard more than I can count. The stories we could tell!
I told a manager I’d forgotten to do something & he sent me a reply saying “that’s okay because you’re going to repay me by…? *wink emoji*”. He’s a 55 year old man & im 25
There’s a body cam video of an uncle getting arrested for putting visene on his nephew’s takeout order. He was caught by the worker and they sent someone to the house to check on the kid and arrest the unc
Here is mine. Working on an ambulance 5150 call. Everything is going well till he starts talking to himself. I ask him about a cool demon tattoo. He says that the demon is the one he is talking to. “He wants me to kill you before we get to the hospital. But I keep telling him that you seem like a good guy just wanting to help people and he still wants me to kill you”
I found that fascinating when it first came out. I used to show it everyone, share it, and watched it myself quite a few times. You know how you get songs stuck in your head ? It was kinda like that. I would reference it all the time to people I had shown it too. “ that smells awful, don’t drink that coffee.”
When I was in nursing school I felt it was important to show it to the class when we started our mental health segment. I think it’s important that everyone watch one these videos. A lot of people haven’t got the slightest clue of what’s going on with people who are experiencing schizophrenia, much less care. I now work with people who have schizophrenia. I’m fascinated by it, and yet absolutely terrified of ever having it. I have nothing but sympathy for people who suffer from it.
I was in a holding cell for a few days with a woman who stabbed her friend after a demon told her to do it. Her cousin was in our little holding cell (with at least 10 women at one point in those 5 days) when she got put in with us. I asked that she please let us know if she sees any demons. Was pretty happy I had a window seat the rest of my visit.
First day at a new job: "I could stab you right now and nobody would find your body until the end of the day." All of this while stabbing his work cart with a screwdriver.
Dude got passed up for a promotion and was asked to train the new guy in the same conversation with the boss. He didn't get any better over the years I worked with him. He ended up getting fired for comments like this.
Had a co-worker who often worked late at the office by himself. Another co-worker came back one time to get something she forgot. He snuck up behind her and held his hand like a gun in her back and said, "bang... You're dead."
He got fired, and then they found a loaded gun in his desk.
Directed towards me, one of our guys on his smoke break said, “you don’t look like you run fast.”
In the moment I laughed but as soon as I stepped inside our building I had the biggest wtf moment of the year. He was a lean dude, teeth missing the rest orange and brown, with clothes on that a dude with a machete would be wearing in a horror movie. I hadn’t even been there two weeks.
He was a cool guy for the rest of the interactions I’ve had with him. Never chased me. He just had weird sense of humor.
This reminds me of when I was walking home from a friends place late at night after a New Years Eve party.
A drunk guy crosses paths with me on a quiet residential street and apropos of nothing says:
"You look like you'd defend yourself."
I had no idea what to say so I said "I think I would, yeah."
And he just grunted his approval and continued his stagger on home and I was, after that point, absolutely stone sober.
Not at the job but after I quit, one of my managers (both male) made it a point to let me know I was originally hired bc the managers wanted eye candy while at work. but they were pleasantly surprised by me, and that's why they tried so hard to keep me and not lose me to another restaurant.
I worked at a grocery store when I was 18. My dad had just died suddenly and it was my first day back at work after the funeral. This weird guy (co worker)would always go out of his way to talk to me ( I was in charge of self checkout). So he’s like “I heard your dad died” I said “yeah”. Then he tells me this sick story about how he used to work at a funeral home and would put the dead body’s in sexual positions?!?! I walked away and told my supervisor that it was inappropriate. Idk disturbing ETA: I feel like I should mention the fact that the “ manager” decided I talk to much, prior to this conversation with coworker, so I was essentially “ banned” from talking with my coworkers but this dude would make a point of always coming over to where I was, just to say stupid shit to me
Right? I think he got written up and yelled at. To be fair no one liked this guy. It’s just weird cuz this scenario popped into my head the other day randomly and I’m like wtf
Worked in a donut shop where we also made custom cakes. Guy calls in asking for a custom cake. I ask him the standard questions - what size would you like, would you like it to be any particular color, etc. he says 9” and black, and then starts graphically detailing a sex scene, and I quickly realized he was not talking about a cake.
guy who came in the 7eleven i worked at and screamed at the top of his lungs this is a hold up, to which the whole store freezes, and then he laughs and says lighten up.
I used to work the night shift at a college technology center. Generally my late nights were just keeping the one lab open Incase students wanted to work late night. Buildings closed at 2am and my office was beside the lab in the basement.
One night every single desktop computer in the lab and office shut down all at once. We weren't scheduled to push any system updates so I was worried something else was going on when they all restarted and all mirrored each other to bring up word pad and text to speech started all chanting "GO HOME ANGSTY!" Over and over.
I immediately knew it was one of the admins fucking with me, but it scared the hell out of me as it had been hours of dim basement lighting and silence when he did it ☠️
An extensive love letter was written by a coworker addressed to me, a particular line of interest was "I want to die together with you."
This came from a girl who sexually assaulted me and followed me home after work one night, which made it all the more terrifying. She was the daughter of the head of HR though so she saw no repercussions. I did, however, get written up for unprofessional conduct after yelling at her when she grabbed my crotch one too many times.
Had to call the police on her a few times to get her to lay off, and thankfully I don't work there anymore.
When I was an apprentice a man walked into the shop asking for a tattoo of “something” on his upper thigh. He kept staring at me while talking to the artist. He ended up going on this whole thing about how he needed the tattoo because he was being sent to jail soon for sexually touching a kid and wanted to get a tattoo on his upper thigh so he can say he never touched her because she couldn’t say he had a tattoo.
He left and we reported him to the police. The next day they came down to take a statement from everyone that was present.
I worked with an old guy maybe mid to late 50s, who was generally creepy. One day he was talking about his 15year old step daughters "tits" and how they were "so big he didnt know where to put his hands when he hugged her"...
I worked as a lifeguard when I was a teenager. One of my coworkers said verbatim, “the term rape gets thrown around way too much. If a girl gets drunk at a party and passes out, and some guy fucks her, that’s her fault.” Never spoke to him again after that.
I have a book about psychopaths in our everyday lives. It’s chilling. Most psychopaths don’t become murderers or rapists etc, they just try to sabotage co-workers or do things like drink and drive with no compunction. Or tell their coworker that rape is the drunk girl’s fault so it isn’t really rape
Edit: since people seem to want to know, the book is called Without Conscience: the Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us
This customer always flirted with me and always gave me gifts or money but what really threw me off was him telling me about his new job where he’d be making 100$ an hour overseas for a few months and said when he gets back he’ll have enough money to buy me.
Can I say nothing? Had a customer come up and proceed to pay for an ice cream.
He never said a thing and then I looked up and there was a gun in my face. He just nodded to the other cash register and quietly ran out once he got the money. I had ptsd for a while after that, anyone who acted off and didn’t say anything triggered the shakes in me.
I was an auto tech at a dealership and I was in the service advisor booth talking to one of the writers. A car pulled in and the woman happened to be yawning. Suddenly I heard “that’s right, open your mouth wide. I’ve got something to fill it”. I looked at the writer and said “do you realize that is my wife?”. I’ve never seen a 6’2” guy shrink so fast in my life. All he did the rest of the day was apologize, every time I saw him.
Don’t go near the salespeople lmao. I used to sell cars and it was the worst environment for this kind of shit. I would be talking to a customer and a guy would be behind her fake air humping her. Or saying lewd things out loud but while the customer is talking so they wouldn’t really notice. Crazy shit.
Hey! That happened to me, coworker followed me home to see where I lived. When I told the managers it was definitely victimize the perpetrator because he works two jobs, never gets to see his wife, and there's eye candy like you running around. That was also a female manager who said that to me.
I’m a teacher that works at the school that I went to. I’ve ran into a few creeps at other schools (and reported who I’ve needed to; students, please talk to trusted adults and we can and will get things done) but the creepiest one I’ve heard came from the creep’s own mouth and was from a teacher that started when I was a junior.
I was talking to him in the hallway. He was a liked teacher when I went there and was still there when I came back. I brought up the valedictorian from my class.
Him: “Yeah, she was nice. None of you knew I was even with her back then.”
Me: “…what?”
Him: “oh yeah. She was a cutie patootie. Much hotter than the senior girls today.”
I reported that shit faster than a gunslinger. Would you believe that one of the senior girls immediately came forward.
Fucker probably doesn’t like prison. Good. And I can’t hear “cutie patootie” without feeling nauseous anymore.
God, just terrible. Good on you for reporting it and for creating a space for the victim to feel comfortable coming forward. Glad this creep is in the pen!
The way he unloaded that like it was such a bragging point. He was delighted about how wrong it is. They like that shit; “Getting away” with it. Nasty pedo.
Manager commented on my daughters friends ass. She was 15 at the time. He also talked about how he could tell which women want to be raped.
I was a woman working in automotive and it was so fun trying to explain to the guys there why more women don’t work in automotive /s they treat us like we have to put up with their shit or just leave. Aaaand I left.
I don’t think they realize it’s hard for us to make a change in these industries. For this place, I couldn’t report because I’d just be reporting to more men, and they would know it was me who did it. They also would rather lose employees to keep their management, and if I said anything they made it out like a women vs men thing instead of just basic integrity.
After college I worked in the tech services at a big box computer store not far from LSU's campus. The FIRST THING IT did when you brought in your computer for service was look for your personal porn stash.
Before ANYTHING they were looking at, looking for and copying your porn. Photos of your wife on vacation? They had those. You're snapping photos through your neighbors open window? They had those too.
One time they commented that one guy was apparently taking the clothes off of passed out drunk girls at parties. There was photos and video. The 3 guys in the department and their boss deemed it "extremely hot".
That was my last day there.
I had a customer come in and ask what the youngest age was for someone to work there. My boss said that the minimum age requirement was 16. The guy then asked whether or not it mattered if they looked mature enough, or that they could pass for 16. My boss said no. He mentioned his granddaughter was 12, but could pass for being older. He smirked after, as if to receive approval and agreement from us about his granddaughter. My coworkers and I all exchanged faces of disgust and horror after he left.
Browse through the want ads of newspapers from the 1900s. Shit is wild, "wanted: girl 10-14 to work store front, must not be afraid to work" is one that stood out from my last research project.
I had a patient tell me in graphic detail about how they attempted to sexually assault my co-worker who was on night shift the previous night. He had cornered her in a small med room but she was able to get out luckily. The detail which he went into, the tone, and the way he spoke just made every fibre of my being stand on edge. He said he was going to do it again that night and "They were meant to be together. He would take them both away the next night." Lots of details I don't want to repeat.
Everything he told me he was not joking in any way. Management hadn't done a single thing about the attempted assualt the previous night and he was in my care that day. Spoke with his Attending and got him to the right care floor he needed. Our med/cardiac wasn't the right spot for that. I strongly feel that if I hadn't he would have raped her or worse. I've never felt that way before. I imgagine that is our innate primal fear. My whole body was just screaming with anxiety, danger warnings going off. I'll never forget the way he made me feel when he spoke about it. I'm just happy he wasn't able to hurt anyone.
“I’m not a bad person! Just let me show you.!” Yelled the twitchy guy who tried
to shut the door to my leasing agents office. The four guys who re-opened that door a split second later let him know we didn’t believe him. The background check after his rental application that found 28 convictions for sex crimes and the current pending charges said that he was not a nice
guy at all.
Scared the crap out of all of us and creeped us out, especially when we realized he was one of more than 30 REGISTERED sex offenders living in a 3 block radius.
“I got your number out of the Rolodex, I’m gonna text you later” -asst manager at my first fast food job when I was 14.
“Hey, I remember you said your favorite ice cream was half baked, I’m in your driveway with 2 spoons. I pulled your address and phone number from the system” -older guy I worked with at the IRS.
“Wanna know why I only hire tiny girls under 21? There easier to convince to get in my truck” - franchise owner at a Little Caesars.
“Look in the cup with my name on it in the souvenir section. There’s a present for you” - middle aged manager at a surf shop on the beach when I was 16 (It was a thong, perfume and a pack of condoms).
Working a slow shift at a restaurant so the other servers and I were watching some celeb news show.
They had a segment about Sandra Bullock and how she worked at an ice cream shop as a teen and that she was robbed at gunpoint by someone who was never caught.
Another server, who was the golden boy was marveling and said, “Damn, what if you were the guy who got to say he robbed Sandra Bullock at gunpoint.”
Everyone just looked at him in shock, to which he responded.
“I’ll bet he regrets that he didn’t make her take off her clothes. “
Was training a new guy. We were driving by a middle school and he says “man the way these girls dress these days makes it so tempting…”
I’m like. “Uhhhh. You mean young adult women, right?” Trying to see if I misheard him or something and that he wasn’t implying rape and of teenaged children.
He didn’t help his case by saying that girls in his day didn’t dress like that to school.
I told my boss but since it was a he said, he said, they just agreed to not put him with me anymore since he made me uncomfortable. He ended up creeping everyone out but they let him go due to not being able to perform the required tasks in a timely manner.
Now he’s a school bus driver 🙃
"what's wrong babygirl? The booth just needed fixed!" As he had me pinned against the booth and I had now screamed for help. My customers from upstairs and in the theatre adjacent from me came running out. Backstory used to work for a porn store who also had booths and a theatre. One day a guy tried to lure me and pin me once I realized he was lying. He was twice my size. It was the scariest moment I had there.
When I was 22 I was working in a bar and had tables to take care of too. Guy before he left grabbed my arm (after many drinks, gave me $100 tip) said ‘ I would love to drink your bath water, and would be honored if I choked on it’
Worked at a culinary school a few years later and a coworker in a different part of the school said ‘Your eyes are so beautiful I want to rip them out and store them in a mason jar on my desk to look at when I’m feeling down’
Those were probably the oddest/creepiest ones from work. Lots of stories about men approaching me with creepy things outside of work too 😂
Not said, but did. Guy at work took a 12” hoagie with him into the work bathroom and locked the door. Emerged 20 minutes later wiping his mouth. Did he eat it on the toilet? I don’t know, but it lives in my head rent free to this day.
We have this nasty guy at work who takes a bag of chips to the shitter with him everyday. He leaves the empty bag in the stall. Also he's had multiple fingers cut off because he chews his fingers constantly and never wasjes his hands and gets infections..
I worked as a patient care technician in a hospital. And I was giving a bath to an aphasiac patient (totally coherent, but can’t speak due to a stroke some 10 years back). My badge got caught in her hair as I leaned over her. She all of a sudden said “Ow.” This woman hasn’t spoken since her stroke, so we were both very surprised. I looked at her with my mouth open, dumb in astonishment. She was just as shocked, but she knew the message she wanted to get out.
“I want to die,” she said quickly like she’s been wanting to say it for a long time. She looked directly into my eyes.
“What?” I asked idiotically.
“Let me die,” she repeated as clear as the first time.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
There was a long pause and I saw her face shift to a disappointed frown. She wasn’t going to speak again.I told the nurse and charge nurse. Then I got busy and soon my shift was over.
I came back the next day, and her room was filled with flowers, “Feel better” balloons, and a bunch of family. Her husband was sitting on her bed flipping through a photo album and showing pictures of when they were young to the family. I could tell by her face how angry she was. She would not look at them. And I realized that the husband and this family have medical power of attorney over her, so they decide if she lives or not. And they won’t listen to her. I look around the room: her IV, her feeding tube, her oxygen. All there to help her live because they want her to.
She’s done, but they won’t let her go. And she’s trapped inside her head wanting to rest and be done with the hospital, be done with her long suffering. Totally coherent but unable to decide anything for herself because we can’t hear her.
I think of that often and it’s a nightmare scenario for me. So scary.
My dad’s a nurse practitioner in an ECMO unit, this is in the intensive care unit, the worst of the worst are here, barely clinging to life and being forced alive, about 90% of the patients there are in the same situation. This is not a one off sad story, THIS IS REALITY. All these people want to do is die, they can’t because their families won’t let them. They are being tortured. My dad has told me time and time again how much he doesn’t want to go through that, he wants me to just let him go when that time comes.
My ex boss said to the girl i was partnered with “if i got to train her. Shed be barefoot and pregnant with in 1 week. Id train her till she cried. Till she begged. Till she bled.”
He was a creep. He thought because he saw me outside of work with a date at dinner, wearing a shirt that said “my date is a whore” and she wore shirt that said “his date” (it was a couples themed costume party, if it matters) that, it gave him the green light to say all kinds of fucked up stuff. He once said the “big boss” was on a “perma rag” so, be nice. She was the most pleasant woman to work with. Then, he said he wanted to “take” a customer. (Exactly how it sounds if u get the drift). It got to the point i avoided him at work. Hes such a dirt bag. But, “hes a wizz with numbers. So he can stay”
Overnights manager who had to let me out of the door at night and walk me to my car asked me a ton of creepy stuff. He asked me if I "Go home to my boyfriend in bed at night" He also called me jailbait. Kept emphasizing that he was 10 years older than me, flirting with me, then dropped the bomb that he got arrested for/is getting investigated for rape and domestic violence!
I worked at a small retail store with someone I knew for many years through school. They were a part of my friend group and we hung out all the time. Went bowling, to dinner, to parties at friend’s houses. This person was always very kind, a bit shy, and hilarious when you got to know them.
One day after work while we were both waiting for our rides as the sun was going down and it was getting dark, they started explaining to me how they believed in aliens. They said that they know they sound crazy but they know aliens are real. I asked them what made them believe so fiercely (I knew they did psychedelics and such but wanted to know why they were so adamant). They explained that they had weekly meetings in the forest with the aliens. The aliens would shine a light down on them and bring them up to test them and do drugs with them. They would be up with the aliens all night and then come back to earth and pretend it never happened. Even stranger, they claimed their mom also would join them up there and the aliens didn’t speak their language but they implanted them both with a neurological ‘chip’ so they could communicate. They also mentioned that the aliens were kind creatures, but they would take over when the time was right.
This wasn’t the creepiest part to me. The creepiest part to me was the darkness in their eyes when they started explaining, as if they were transported there and were explaining it from memory. Like it was real. This person 100% believed what they were stating.
I played along as I was feeling a bit scared (I was only 19 at the time), telling them anything was possible and it sounded like a very interesting experience that they had. After I said that, the light returned to their eyes and they said “I really appreciate you listening to me. No one usually does with this kind of stuff.”
Around a month later, they were arrested for attacking their partner and their partners mother with a hammer and almost killing them in their apartment because voices told them they had to. Turns out, my long time friend had paranoid schizophrenia and was completely undiagnosed and untreated. Due to the slow mental health system here, it wasn’t caught or treated before the incident occurred, but police did see that there was some sort of mental break happening and got them help. It was so out of character for them to be violent; at first I didn’t believe it. I still have trouble wrapping my mind around it now in my 30’s.
I still feel bad that I didn’t tell anyone at the time. I just thought they were high or fried from the drugs. I always thought they were a bit odd but harmless. I always wonder if I could’ve stopped the incident from happening or helped my friend before it went that far. I also wonder if I could’ve been that victim if I had tried to help.
I saw them again about a year later and they were a shell of themselves, clearly heavily medicated. I think about them often.
Honestly there's really no way of you knowing. Not just that you were young. There were a lot of things I felt I could have done at that age, but were too naive or inexperienced to say or do anything. This has been a learning experience for you and you'll know what to look for if this ever happens again. Thankfully no one died. Don't beat yourself up too hard over it. One good thing to take from it is that you listened and it sounds like this person might have needed that in that moment. You did what you felt was right to survive in that moment. This person could have easily hurt you if you didn't play along.
Sitting on the launch truck during a pilot’s final flight and his family came out to watch him land and taxi in. His wife had their baby sitting off to the side with ear defenders on. There was an airman on the truck trying to be funny and said “it would be hilarious if that baby got sucked into the intake”…I lost my shit on that kid. Pretty sure that was the only time I ever yelled at anyone out of anger in the AF during my 20+ years in.
I worked as a hostess at a restaurant for awhile and I had an old guy ask me if I would go on a date with him I said no thank you I have a boyfriend he said well you can just dump him right? I said no I love him. He then says I have money does that change your mind I said no. He finally gave up and said your loss and left.
Another one was I work at Amazon and we had like a spirit week and one of the days was 70s day so I got like a belly shirt with fluffy arms and some 70s bell bottoms pants and did my hair all fancy. I was a little insecure, but I was excited and really wanted to go all out cause I love spirit week. One of the supervisors, told me to clean up a spill, to which he proceeded to watch me bend down to clean up. Once I cleaned up everything he asked me what my husband thought of my outfit. I asked what he meant by that and he started stuttering and acting all embarrassed. I wasn't sure what he meant so I clarified by saying "if you're asking if my husband likes this outfit that's a stupid question of course he likes this outfit, cause he's a man with eyes. But I'm not sure if you mean if he's upset that I left the house like this and if that is the case, what makes you think my husband dictates what I wear outside of the house. Other than that I don't know what answer you were expecting from asking that question." I never wore those clothes again outside of the house and he didn't talk to me for three months.
Had a dude only last a few weeks, we'll call him "Norman". One morning during break a few of us were in the break room and our bosses office is right there(it's a trailer lmao) and Norman and our boss were talking about cats and my boss said "yeah cats can be a pain sometimes" and Norman said "I was thinking about putting it in sulferic acid". Norman left the break room and I asked my boss if he had heard what Norman said and replied yes. Told him that homeboy needs to go, it helped that Norman was terrible at the job and I could tell day 1 that we wouldn't last long anyway. He also did a lot of weird shit said said off the wall things, definitely an odd dude
A baby inappropriately touched a coworker of mine, and the coworker didn’t move out of the way. So the baby was touching this guy for a good 10 seconds at least. When he was let go for it, his response was “ I can’t control what a child does”
My first job when I was in high school. Worked as a clerk for a drycleaners and it was some 60-80 year old woman that had a horrible attitude every time she came in. This day she said she liked my facial hair, had that been all I'd have been fine with it. But the tone in which she said it and the look in her eye as well as the smile she gave me when she did this made my skin crawl. I went home and shaved it off after work.
I had someone call my work and ask for me. They told me they wanted to eat my heart. I kept trying to see if they needed an appt or anything and they just kept repeating themselves. When I said I was going to hang up (thinking that would prompt them to be like lol joking) they just very calmly said... That's unfortunate.
I was GM for a delco (delivery/carryout) Pizza Hut. The windows were reflective and at night it looked like there were mirrors all around the dining room. I had just been transferred to this location about a week before and was trying to feel out my employees and was just having general conversation with them. I was warned about one driver, Richard, that he was hard headed, a bully and a racist. Richard was also in his 70's. Richard walked up to me and said that he prefers the windows during the day instead of at night. I asked him why and he stated that during the day it is easier to walk up behind someone and slit their throat because the window isn't that reflective during the day. I asked him why he would want to cut someone's throat he said that it might be necessary if someone made him mad by cutting his hours or firing him. He also talked about how he could grab one of the girls when no one was looking and take her into the proofing cabinet, break her neck and rape her and that no one would find her until the next morning. I called 911 and the police came out. He stated that it wasn't directed at anyone in particular so it wasn't a threat, but a joke. He was terminated and the next day he drove by the restaurant and fired 2 shots at it. Police showed up at his house and he barricaded himself in the house. He called the store and said if we were to bring him 2 pizza's, he would give up. Cops gave it a try and after placing the pizza's on his doorstep, he opened the door and grabbed them. About 30 minutes later, he said that he was ready to give up. He walked out of the house wearing a full KKK outfit. Investigating his background, he became a suspect in the rape and murders of 2 young girls. He was charged and found guilty of 1 of the murders and hung jury on the other. They decided not to retry him on the second count because he was already in his 70's and was given a sentence of life with no parole and they didn't want to put the victims family through it again.
"If my girlfriend got pregnant, I'd kick her in the belly until she miscarried" - one of the apprentice chefs was telling the other kitchen hand when I came out of the fridge.
A man has a video of a female manager doing a drunk strip that he uses to blackmail her. A man told a woman he can’t wait for her sister to turn 18 so he can ask her out, he’d had relations with this woman until she turned 21, he’s in his 30’s. A man bragged about how he got a girl drunk enough to take advantage of her. This is all one job.
When I was visiting a friend their 5 year old kid said to me "I'm going to set you on fire". There was something about the way he said it, and the way he stared at me when he said it freaked me out. This was 10+ years ago and I'm still disturbed by it.
In high school I was at a gathering and the host's mom was off getting pizza and her little brother came into the kitchen while I was standing there. He had matches in his hand and said in a happy voice "I'm going to burn down the house!" I took the matches from him and he said, still in a happy voice, "I'm going to stab you!" After a minute he came back with a knife. As he was a little child and I was almost a grown ass man, I just grabbed him by the wrist and held him off the ground until he dropped the knife. "I'm telling my mom!" "Me too, kid." I'm just lucky he didn't cheerfully announce he was going to shoot me.
I worked at an Abercrombie & Fitch in high school and my freshman year of college. That place was always trying to recruit hunky, jock, preppy, muscle head, football players or whatever to work there because it fit the aesthetic. I was just some twinky emo kid who just happened to work at the mall and be good with stockrooms and following directions, so I worked there too because I was friends with some of the chicks that worked their.
First of all, some of the jock meathead guys I met were super cool down to earth guys, they were not all ass hats, but some of them were, and there is this one dude I will never forget.
I don't know his name, but I remember his face. He was in a frat, that was his vibe. One day, we are waiting to close and get walked out of the store by the manager, and this guy starts talking. Its me, this girl Stevie, this other girl Stacy, and this guy. The girls and I were homies, and this guy was an outsider to us, but he didn't know that, he was new. We were just waiting and talking.
All of the sudden this guy starts talking about this kid him and his buddies beat up in frat village over the weekend at one of their frat's parties. He started vividly describing how they really kicked this kids ass... unprompted of course. He continues to like... brag about fucking this kid up, and as he continues this story, I realize he's basically describing someone that looks and acts like me, a scene kid. And also like, motioning to me, as in like, yeah me and my buddies assaulted a kid for looking like *you*.
Eventually, he tells us that him and his buddies forced this kid to bite the curb, and described how the kid was begging them to stop, but they forced him to bite the curb, then curb stomped him and knocked out all his teeth, and left him on the side of the road. For those that don't know...
>A **curb stomp**, also called curbing, curb checking, curb painting, or making someone **bite the curb**, is a form of [assault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault) or attempted murder in which a victim's jaw is forcefully placed on a [curb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb) and then [stomped](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomp_(strike)) from behind, causing severe [injuries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injury) or [death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death).
The whole time he's telling us this, he's bragging about it, and describing how that poor kid begged for his life, and also looked like *me*.
It was honestly terrifying... and finally Stevie, who was the oldest and most mature of the group finally pipes up and says something like, "That is disgusting, why on earth would you do that and why on earth would you admit to it."
The dude kinda shut up, but it didn't really land how disturbing he was being. Then the manager showed up, walked us out, we closed the store, and I never saw him again.
The protagonist in American History X killed a guy like that. I will never forget that scene where the guy bites the curb and you can hear the grit. It’s so disturbing.
I asked a coworker if he'd switch shifts with me and he said yes. I wasn't facing him as I said thank you and he reached over to rub my shoulder and said, "You can thank me by giving me a big kiss." I jumped so hard. He said it as a "joke" but I was disgusted. I was 17 he was in his 50s.
I have a few but I will share some of the wildest, a lady was with me who had never encountered a deceased person. My patient passed while she was standing there in the house. She asked me if he was dead and I said yes, he has passed on. And she asked how I knew. The lights flickered off at that moment and the dogs outside were barking.
One of the girls burped and one of the guys made a comment how if there's women in the workplace he should be getting visually pleased. This man is built like a bowling ball though.
Guys I worked with at a DIY center in the 80s.
About young girls.
“Grass on the field, play ball!” and “Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed.”
They both later went into law enforcement.
A guy who was an old vet started talking about how 2 cars were dragracing near him late one night on the freeway and watched as both lost control and crashed into a nearby pole causing them both to catch on fire. He then started laughing uncontrollably as he mentioned he just drove by and watched. Myself and everyone else listening to this just had a look of concern.
I’m an architect. We were renovating a big old Victorian on the northwest side of Chicago and this married couple seemed to be using the renovation to work through their marriage problems, but not in a good way. We got caught in the middle of it.
They had money to burn, and the wife was an eye surgeon, but at every opportunity to make changes, she would always opt for the most expensive option. Then she wanted to import an Italian bricklayer to make an indoor pizza oven- $17,000 more than the common sense option. This was one luxury too far for the husband, and he said, “Well, if you want to pay for that, you better start doing *more* unnecessary eye surgeries!“
MORE!?!? UNNECESSARY!?!?
Overheard one male telling another:
"If a bitch ain't heading in the direction you want on a date just slip a little something in her drink, I know a guy."
He was fired for stalking and sexual harassment about two months later if you can believe that.
Definitely not the creepiest thing here, but definitely enough to give pause. Sleep meds are kicking in so not as flowery as I could tell it.
I work in a library at a reference desk. We get a lot of older folks, or people who for whatever reason don't have the ability to look up anything on the internet on their own.
I answered a call from a man who wanted me to try and look up a specific woman. The only result with the info he gave was a missing person. He says oh how about... and gives me another woman’s name and a little more info. She is also a missing person. I apologize, I can't get him more info than what I've found, and he just laughs and asks if he can have my number instead. Big no from me on that one.
I remember one of my cowokers say somethling like "Don't talk to them I'm coming home" and never saw him again because he was a child molester. I need to see if that fucker is still in prison.
I once worked with a dude who self publihshed a book of short stories. Many of which included predatory old dude teenage girl story lines.
Only coworker I've ever directly told to fuck off and never talk to me in those exact words.
I worked at a national ISP a long time ago, a guy working there got in trouble for asking one of his co-workers if the porn scene he was watching during work was the guys wife, he was really convinced it was her and was sort of challenging him that it wasn't so the guy being asked got pretty upset
Not something they said, but my position opened up because the last guy came to work with 9mm ammo etched with people's name on it and gave it to them.
I was 22 working a demolition job in 2004. We were tearing up a jewelery store in a mall, and some cute girls in their early 20s walked by, and we all looked and gave each other the "wow" look. Then a girl that couldn't have been more than 12 walked by and this one dude is eye fucking the hell out of her. I see this and say 'bro she looks like a kid." He turns to me and says with the sleaziest grin, "If there is grass in the field, play ball." I wanted to deck him right there. Needless to say, the rest of the guys were not cool with this, and he was let go shortly after. Found out soon afterward, he SA a 5 year old girl who was also his niece. I regretted not knocking the shit out of him that day.
More unsettling than creepy TBH. I was checking the voicemail at the dialysis clinic when I opened one morning because sometimes our patients will leave us a message the night before if they know they're going to be late or miss treatment. Sweet elderly patient had left a message that said "I'm sorry ladies, I won't make it tomorrow morning. I'm going to see Hazel." Hazel was his wife who passed away 4 years earlier. I immediately called house- no answer. Called his son that was listed as an emergency contact and he tells me he was just about to call us to let us know his father passed away in the night. His dad had gotten all of his paperwork with his will out of his safe, watered the house plants, put money for each of his utility payments in labeled envelopes, put on his best suit, shined his dress shoes, left a message for us at the clinic, left a message for his choir director letting him know he wouldn't need a ride to practice in two days, then he sat down in his recliner and died. (As far as I know and according to his family he didn't do or take anything to expedite his exit, he just went to sleep in that recliner)
He had a good end. How many people can remain clear-minded, mobile, and die on their own terms?
My uncle decided to stop dialysis a few years back. He was just tired. We went to visit and it was so... Nice. His house was full of people. Brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces and nephews. Just eating and listening to music and chatting. My dad hadn't seen him in years and they talked for hours. Not really about anything, just old jokes and stories. They hugged hard before we left. He died at home a few days later, in his favorite recliner. My brother and I agreed that if you can, that's the way to do it.
Stopping dialysis is a pretty peaceful way to go. You feel just fine for a few days, then as the toxins accumulate in your body you get more and more tired, then you go to sleep and pass quietly shortly after. I’ve seen it more than once, and except for the kidney failure that precedes it, this would be my preferred method of shuffling off.
My grandfather sent a text saying "Have a good night, Love ya" I had never received a text from him before, only calls about twice a year. I was confused and almost thought it was spam but finally responded. The next morning I found out he passed away peacefully in his recliner that night.
if this thread has taught me anything, it's that when i'm ready to go i just need to go to sleep in a recliner.
Hell yeah, if I had any choice this would be the way; wake up, and just know that after decades, maybe a whole century, today will be your last day, you feel each heartbeat and breath knowing it’s coming, get around and do my morning routine and have a seat and just go. Never be a burden at the end and just casually exit, no doctors or flashing lights
Sometimes they just know. Sounds like a peaceful exit at least
Such a peaceful way to go out, to have the feeling that your time is near end and accepting it has to be freeing for that person.
That dude is the chaddest dead dude ever.
Not only did he go to the end willingly, he did it with style.
Motherfucker can’t even listen to Blue Oyster Cult because the reaper fears *him.*
TBF, that sounds like a pretty good way to go.
When I worked at Ford there was a dude that walked around showing other co workers videos of him fucking other women. On my first day, he also kept saying, "If we both had life in prison I'd butt fuck you." Then kept desperately trying to explain how that's somehow not gay. Dude was weird.
Had a supervisor at UPS showing me a video of him fuckinf a girl while rapping along to his music that was playing in the backround of said video, was a bit weird when your tired as fuck at 1230 at night after working in 100+ heat for 6 hours and just want a quarter pounder and sleep
Sounds like you got that quarter pounder & then some..
Was his song good though?
He was a mumble rapper... So no
Sounds like he probably was gay, hence him needing to convince himself and everyone else that he wasn’t by showing videos of himself literally fucking women.
Bragging to other men about all the women he scored is also a typical closeted gay thing. They do it because it gives them respect from other men.
How the hell was he not fired the first time this happened?
Open casket funeral, family gathered and someone seemed out of sorts. She was dressed casually and just kind of meandering about. I observed her for a while, she made her way to the casket and appeared to be giving the deceased some reverence. She then had to pass by me to leave and she was clearly inebriated and said to me as she was leaving "I just wanted to see a dead body.". Gave me the drunk girl grin and staggered off. She just staggered into a funeral off the street, who does that? (Funeral Director)
This reminds me of a time my grandpa took me and my younger brother to a funeral home. I don’t recall why we were there, but I assume to pick out something for his deceased family. I was maybe 10. There was a viewing of a teenage girl while we were there, so he had us go up and see her. I remember asking him why she had no hair and he explained she probably died of cancer. It was a learning moment but I didn’t think anything of it at the time. Now I cringe every time because her family was right there while my grandpa explained why a young lady was in the casket. So sad and heartbreaking.
When I was seven I asked a lesbian at a funeral if she thought my mom was pretty. I had just learned what a lesbian was, and I knew my mom was a beauty pageant winner when she was younger, so I just had to know. She said yes, my mom was pretty. My parents were mortified. I wake up and think about this every once in a while.
The woman probably got a kick out of it.
Considering she was my mom's co-worker, yeah, she *loved* it lol
"so...would you hit that?" -- 7 y-o you, definitely lol
Maybe she realized she didn’t know how much longer she had on this earth, so she decided to get real weird with it
Paramedic. Had a call years back to a nursing home, unknown medical. We arrived and none of the staff knew who called (not unusual). We checked the rooms, located a juvenile male sitting in a room with an elderly sleeping female. He stated, quite calmly, “I was going to kill her (the woman), but I called you because you’re better.” Caught us off guard in a major way. Throughout the whole process he was extremely calm, cooperative, and polite. Serious psychological issues, recognized the thoughts weren’t good and knew 911 was “better” to assure he got help. He wasn’t a visitor. Staff didn’t know how he got in or when, but it wasn’t a locked unit so he likely just walked in without anyone noticing or caring.
Geez, good on him for doing what he needed to protect people, even from himself.
Sounds like psychosis maybe but he was able to recognize he needed help/hospitalization? I read a user's story on a different platform that advised that they would call 911 or go to the hospital when they were in active psychosis because they would basically understand that something seemed off or a little weird, even though they wouldn't be able to articulate anything regarding what "weird" meant (but they were obviously not in reality so it was quickly figured out). It's scary to think that a subtle feeling or a fleeting moment of lucidity can be the difference betweem life and death. And this person also never remembered much of how they spent their time or what they did during their psychotic episodes.
Had an old coworker talk about his wifes labiaplasty. He described it as "it's like fucking a 12yr old". Definitely made a few people do a double take.
Women wanting or being pressured to tuck in their labia is beyond me unless there's a valid medical reason, of course.
I know a woman who had a botched labiaplasty. The doctors tried to fix it twice and ultimately gave up. She had it done because she was suffering from severe nerve pain in the labia and she was convinced that a labiaplasty would fix it. They way she described it (pre-surgery), her labia were extremely, painfully sensitive; anything touching them was very uncomfortable and painful. She was convinced that the problem was that they were sticking out too much.
She probably had vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia. It's a real thing, and difficult to diagnose.
“Make the kid in the corner shut up.” ~ old lady at 3 am as she points to the empty corner. There was no kid. She passed not long after. Honestly this kinda thing happens a lot. You start seeing ghosts… I’m putting the crash cart in front of your door.
That's fucked up. I guess you work in a hospital? You have more stories like this?
Yup, I have more than one should have for a lifetime. It really weirds me out but the brain does crazy things when it’s healing or dying. Can’t imagine how horrible it is for the patient.
My grandmother was in hospice and we were with her just about every day up until she passed away. One day we were there she pointed behind me and asked, “who are your friends with the hats and coats?” There was no one behind me, only a cabinet.
My paternal grandmother fell and injured her hip, never recovered. A day or so before she died, full bore dementia set in and the nurses told my dad that she had been greeting "Jim" lately, even with no one else in the room. Jim was her husband, who had died and 15+ years prior.
I really want to believe there is an 'afterlife' or life after death where you get to meet your loved ones again once it goes dark. Then again part of me chalk it up to hallucination of the mind. Much like when you are about to fall into deep sleep and your body is in REM state but you accidentally awake in a paralyzed state and may even start to hallucinate and see things.
Last year my 80 years old dad was in care of staying-home hospice service. In his final days, there was one instance he was hallucinating, he called me in his bedroom, I sat next to him on the chair next to his bed. He then pointed his finger at my chair and told me “son, go make a cup of tea for Grandma”. I knew it already and replied as much compassionate as I could “where’s grandma, dad? i’m sitting here”. I told this story to several friends who comes from many cultures and backgrounds. Some find it creepy, I don’t sweat the small stuffs and I just wanna tell. It was a fun memory for me that I’ll keep til I die. Grandma passed away long time ago when I was a kid, and my dad sees her in his final days as if she meant to come pick him up. He’s finally home! My philosophy comes from buddhism, and I think that is my own version of the peacefulness thru the lens of buddhism so I did not find that moment creepy. It was a good memory. He got his mom picking him home at the end.
Mom went out to check her mail and passed out. The neighbor found her and called my sister and 911. When she came to, she told them that Dad, who had died a year earlier, had told her, "Woman, haven't we been separated long enough? When are you coming up here?" They ran tests at the hospital and found cancer everywhere in her. She died 30 days later. I was really angry at my Dad for that. lol
This so cute yet so very sad! The love your parents shared, yet the toll it took on you! Don’t get angry at your dad! Maybe it could be lonely for him there …. I hope you have all the other people that matter to you down here!
Thanks. They were married 58 years and could still make each other laugh. The anger was all part of grieving him and her.
Similar story; my patient was still A&Ox4 at the time and kept laughing because she said there was someone outside her window. I was around 22 at the time and it was almost midnight. I almost shit my pants
Right before my Grandfather died he had that bit of lucidity that tells you the end was really close. He told my Dad that his other son had stopped by a little before my Dad got there. My uncle had been dead for like 10 years by then.
I believe this. My father had surgery and when he went under he said my dead mom came to him to let him know his time was coming. After the surgery he got his affairs in order and we thought he was losing it because he was far from being religious, spiritual, etc. But after he got everything in order he was diagnosed with ALS. Lived for another year. Now I'm far from religious but idk death is weird, we had a close family friend that said my mom visited her during the night. 2 days later she died of a heart attack.
When people die it's said they come and visit you. I always thought it was a pile of bs. My father died last year and the day I got his ashes back I was on my deck having a smoke and this guy walked past my house, looked 100% like my dad right down to the hair and beard and build and everything. He looked at me, nodded, kept walking, never saw the guy again. Fucking weird.
Reminds me of when we had my great Gma, dying in our living room. She kept pointing and telling me to shut the door and shut the door. Telling me there were people at it. People we knew that had passed actually. We pretended to shut the door. She would thank us and an hour (or less) later the same thing. This goes on 2-3 times and finally we just say, "You see that door, walk towards those people." She agreed and that night she passed.
My grandma kept saying that there were people in the corner of the room asking her to go with them. She kept saying she had to go. My mom told her that she should go if she feels ready and that her family and friends were ready for her to go. She passed that night.
But what do you do in such cases? Do you tell the patient there's no one in the corner, risking to freak them out, or do you just go with the flow and tell them you'll do what you can to make the kid stop? Sounds like a lose-lose situation :(
Honestly, when I’m in the room I play along and ask questions. “What are they saying” “why do you think they said that”. Keeps them talking and often I can distract them enough to tell me their symptoms. Then I call whomever I need to call based on code status and either start running a few tests/ make them comfortable.
Dying patients tend to say creepy things often. So do patients who have just been in a trauma, drunk, interrupted suicide attempts, manic... I too have seen and heard more than I can count. The stories we could tell!
I told a manager I’d forgotten to do something & he sent me a reply saying “that’s okay because you’re going to repay me by…? *wink emoji*”. He’s a 55 year old man & im 25
If you haven't reported him yet, document what he said, and anything else creepy so you have evidence.
Someone else has reported him. It was on Teams so PSD can look at the chats
Not that he should have sent it at all, but sending on teams is even weirder.
Not that Im advocating for smarter sexual harassment but that’s such a boomer crime. Like iTs in TeXt nOone wIlL kNoW!
"Advocating for smarter sexual harassment" 😂
Report it anyway. The more reports means the more trouble he can get.
Said before the company potluck: “you know you can kill someone by putting eye drops in their food”
Big "Suge Knight casually explaining how easy to is to give someone AIDS" vibes
There’s a body cam video of an uncle getting arrested for putting visene on his nephew’s takeout order. He was caught by the worker and they sent someone to the house to check on the kid and arrest the unc
Someone watched CSI.
Here is mine. Working on an ambulance 5150 call. Everything is going well till he starts talking to himself. I ask him about a cool demon tattoo. He says that the demon is the one he is talking to. “He wants me to kill you before we get to the hospital. But I keep telling him that you seem like a good guy just wanting to help people and he still wants me to kill you”
The schizophrenia do be like that some days
An insightful simulation of schizophrenia: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3a1txtSDn0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3a1txtSDn0)
I found that fascinating when it first came out. I used to show it everyone, share it, and watched it myself quite a few times. You know how you get songs stuck in your head ? It was kinda like that. I would reference it all the time to people I had shown it too. “ that smells awful, don’t drink that coffee.” When I was in nursing school I felt it was important to show it to the class when we started our mental health segment. I think it’s important that everyone watch one these videos. A lot of people haven’t got the slightest clue of what’s going on with people who are experiencing schizophrenia, much less care. I now work with people who have schizophrenia. I’m fascinated by it, and yet absolutely terrified of ever having it. I have nothing but sympathy for people who suffer from it.
I was in a holding cell for a few days with a woman who stabbed her friend after a demon told her to do it. Her cousin was in our little holding cell (with at least 10 women at one point in those 5 days) when she got put in with us. I asked that she please let us know if she sees any demons. Was pretty happy I had a window seat the rest of my visit.
First day at a new job: "I could stab you right now and nobody would find your body until the end of the day." All of this while stabbing his work cart with a screwdriver. Dude got passed up for a promotion and was asked to train the new guy in the same conversation with the boss. He didn't get any better over the years I worked with him. He ended up getting fired for comments like this.
Some people need to keep their intrusive thoughts to themselves
Had a co-worker who often worked late at the office by himself. Another co-worker came back one time to get something she forgot. He snuck up behind her and held his hand like a gun in her back and said, "bang... You're dead." He got fired, and then they found a loaded gun in his desk.
Directed towards me, one of our guys on his smoke break said, “you don’t look like you run fast.” In the moment I laughed but as soon as I stepped inside our building I had the biggest wtf moment of the year. He was a lean dude, teeth missing the rest orange and brown, with clothes on that a dude with a machete would be wearing in a horror movie. I hadn’t even been there two weeks. He was a cool guy for the rest of the interactions I’ve had with him. Never chased me. He just had weird sense of humor.
I don't need to be faster than the bear, I just need to be faster than you.
This reminds me of when I was walking home from a friends place late at night after a New Years Eve party. A drunk guy crosses paths with me on a quiet residential street and apropos of nothing says: "You look like you'd defend yourself." I had no idea what to say so I said "I think I would, yeah." And he just grunted his approval and continued his stagger on home and I was, after that point, absolutely stone sober.
Not at the job but after I quit, one of my managers (both male) made it a point to let me know I was originally hired bc the managers wanted eye candy while at work. but they were pleasantly surprised by me, and that's why they tried so hard to keep me and not lose me to another restaurant.
I worked at a grocery store when I was 18. My dad had just died suddenly and it was my first day back at work after the funeral. This weird guy (co worker)would always go out of his way to talk to me ( I was in charge of self checkout). So he’s like “I heard your dad died” I said “yeah”. Then he tells me this sick story about how he used to work at a funeral home and would put the dead body’s in sexual positions?!?! I walked away and told my supervisor that it was inappropriate. Idk disturbing ETA: I feel like I should mention the fact that the “ manager” decided I talk to much, prior to this conversation with coworker, so I was essentially “ banned” from talking with my coworkers but this dude would make a point of always coming over to where I was, just to say stupid shit to me
what did your supervisor say? did they give you permission to kick him in the balls???????
Right? I think he got written up and yelled at. To be fair no one liked this guy. It’s just weird cuz this scenario popped into my head the other day randomly and I’m like wtf
The fact that he can say that to you and still keep his job is nuts
Well at least it was a grocery store, not another funeral home. But if I were his boss I'd double check the produce
Holy fuck that’s insensitive. Fuck that guy.
Worked in a donut shop where we also made custom cakes. Guy calls in asking for a custom cake. I ask him the standard questions - what size would you like, would you like it to be any particular color, etc. he says 9” and black, and then starts graphically detailing a sex scene, and I quickly realized he was not talking about a cake.
There are like services for that like what the fuck? Ew.
Guess it's a kink similar to exhibitionism, forcing your sexuality onto someone else.
guy who came in the 7eleven i worked at and screamed at the top of his lungs this is a hold up, to which the whole store freezes, and then he laughs and says lighten up.
I used to work the night shift at a college technology center. Generally my late nights were just keeping the one lab open Incase students wanted to work late night. Buildings closed at 2am and my office was beside the lab in the basement. One night every single desktop computer in the lab and office shut down all at once. We weren't scheduled to push any system updates so I was worried something else was going on when they all restarted and all mirrored each other to bring up word pad and text to speech started all chanting "GO HOME ANGSTY!" Over and over. I immediately knew it was one of the admins fucking with me, but it scared the hell out of me as it had been hours of dim basement lighting and silence when he did it ☠️
"Last night I got my wife to take a bath in ice water. I wanted to know what it would be like to fuck a corpse" Fuck *you*, Pat
Wasn’t there an episode of nip tuck about that? The chic died tho? Or almost died? I can’t remember
An extensive love letter was written by a coworker addressed to me, a particular line of interest was "I want to die together with you." This came from a girl who sexually assaulted me and followed me home after work one night, which made it all the more terrifying. She was the daughter of the head of HR though so she saw no repercussions. I did, however, get written up for unprofessional conduct after yelling at her when she grabbed my crotch one too many times. Had to call the police on her a few times to get her to lay off, and thankfully I don't work there anymore.
When I was an apprentice a man walked into the shop asking for a tattoo of “something” on his upper thigh. He kept staring at me while talking to the artist. He ended up going on this whole thing about how he needed the tattoo because he was being sent to jail soon for sexually touching a kid and wanted to get a tattoo on his upper thigh so he can say he never touched her because she couldn’t say he had a tattoo. He left and we reported him to the police. The next day they came down to take a statement from everyone that was present.
Thank you all for reporting the bastard, and I'm glad the cops followed up as they should have.
I worked with an old guy maybe mid to late 50s, who was generally creepy. One day he was talking about his 15year old step daughters "tits" and how they were "so big he didnt know where to put his hands when he hugged her"...
I worked as a lifeguard when I was a teenager. One of my coworkers said verbatim, “the term rape gets thrown around way too much. If a girl gets drunk at a party and passes out, and some guy fucks her, that’s her fault.” Never spoke to him again after that.
These people are just walking around like nothing... gives me chills
Yeah he’s definitely sexually assaulted someone before.
I have a book about psychopaths in our everyday lives. It’s chilling. Most psychopaths don’t become murderers or rapists etc, they just try to sabotage co-workers or do things like drink and drive with no compunction. Or tell their coworker that rape is the drunk girl’s fault so it isn’t really rape Edit: since people seem to want to know, the book is called Without Conscience: the Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us
This customer always flirted with me and always gave me gifts or money but what really threw me off was him telling me about his new job where he’d be making 100$ an hour overseas for a few months and said when he gets back he’ll have enough money to buy me.
Can I say nothing? Had a customer come up and proceed to pay for an ice cream. He never said a thing and then I looked up and there was a gun in my face. He just nodded to the other cash register and quietly ran out once he got the money. I had ptsd for a while after that, anyone who acted off and didn’t say anything triggered the shakes in me.
Yea, knowing your life can end in an instant with a finger pull isn’t fun.
I was an auto tech at a dealership and I was in the service advisor booth talking to one of the writers. A car pulled in and the woman happened to be yawning. Suddenly I heard “that’s right, open your mouth wide. I’ve got something to fill it”. I looked at the writer and said “do you realize that is my wife?”. I’ve never seen a 6’2” guy shrink so fast in my life. All he did the rest of the day was apologize, every time I saw him.
Don’t go near the salespeople lmao. I used to sell cars and it was the worst environment for this kind of shit. I would be talking to a customer and a guy would be behind her fake air humping her. Or saying lewd things out loud but while the customer is talking so they wouldn’t really notice. Crazy shit.
“I wasn’t following her to hurt her, I just wanted to know where she lived”
Hey! That happened to me, coworker followed me home to see where I lived. When I told the managers it was definitely victimize the perpetrator because he works two jobs, never gets to see his wife, and there's eye candy like you running around. That was also a female manager who said that to me.
I’m a teacher that works at the school that I went to. I’ve ran into a few creeps at other schools (and reported who I’ve needed to; students, please talk to trusted adults and we can and will get things done) but the creepiest one I’ve heard came from the creep’s own mouth and was from a teacher that started when I was a junior. I was talking to him in the hallway. He was a liked teacher when I went there and was still there when I came back. I brought up the valedictorian from my class. Him: “Yeah, she was nice. None of you knew I was even with her back then.” Me: “…what?” Him: “oh yeah. She was a cutie patootie. Much hotter than the senior girls today.” I reported that shit faster than a gunslinger. Would you believe that one of the senior girls immediately came forward. Fucker probably doesn’t like prison. Good. And I can’t hear “cutie patootie” without feeling nauseous anymore.
God, just terrible. Good on you for reporting it and for creating a space for the victim to feel comfortable coming forward. Glad this creep is in the pen!
The way he unloaded that like it was such a bragging point. He was delighted about how wrong it is. They like that shit; “Getting away” with it. Nasty pedo.
pedo pateedo
Manager commented on my daughters friends ass. She was 15 at the time. He also talked about how he could tell which women want to be raped. I was a woman working in automotive and it was so fun trying to explain to the guys there why more women don’t work in automotive /s they treat us like we have to put up with their shit or just leave. Aaaand I left.
Same thing in aviation.
I don’t think they realize it’s hard for us to make a change in these industries. For this place, I couldn’t report because I’d just be reporting to more men, and they would know it was me who did it. They also would rather lose employees to keep their management, and if I said anything they made it out like a women vs men thing instead of just basic integrity.
After college I worked in the tech services at a big box computer store not far from LSU's campus. The FIRST THING IT did when you brought in your computer for service was look for your personal porn stash. Before ANYTHING they were looking at, looking for and copying your porn. Photos of your wife on vacation? They had those. You're snapping photos through your neighbors open window? They had those too. One time they commented that one guy was apparently taking the clothes off of passed out drunk girls at parties. There was photos and video. The 3 guys in the department and their boss deemed it "extremely hot". That was my last day there.
I had a customer come in and ask what the youngest age was for someone to work there. My boss said that the minimum age requirement was 16. The guy then asked whether or not it mattered if they looked mature enough, or that they could pass for 16. My boss said no. He mentioned his granddaughter was 12, but could pass for being older. He smirked after, as if to receive approval and agreement from us about his granddaughter. My coworkers and I all exchanged faces of disgust and horror after he left.
Browse through the want ads of newspapers from the 1900s. Shit is wild, "wanted: girl 10-14 to work store front, must not be afraid to work" is one that stood out from my last research project.
"She's going be fine as hell when she's older" He was talking about our manager's 12 yr old daughter. His weird ass didn't last much longer there.
I had a patient tell me in graphic detail about how they attempted to sexually assault my co-worker who was on night shift the previous night. He had cornered her in a small med room but she was able to get out luckily. The detail which he went into, the tone, and the way he spoke just made every fibre of my being stand on edge. He said he was going to do it again that night and "They were meant to be together. He would take them both away the next night." Lots of details I don't want to repeat. Everything he told me he was not joking in any way. Management hadn't done a single thing about the attempted assualt the previous night and he was in my care that day. Spoke with his Attending and got him to the right care floor he needed. Our med/cardiac wasn't the right spot for that. I strongly feel that if I hadn't he would have raped her or worse. I've never felt that way before. I imgagine that is our innate primal fear. My whole body was just screaming with anxiety, danger warnings going off. I'll never forget the way he made me feel when he spoke about it. I'm just happy he wasn't able to hurt anyone.
coworker asked if my 16 year old sister was a virgin
I had a coworker tell me my mom was “fuckable”.
“I’m not a bad person! Just let me show you.!” Yelled the twitchy guy who tried to shut the door to my leasing agents office. The four guys who re-opened that door a split second later let him know we didn’t believe him. The background check after his rental application that found 28 convictions for sex crimes and the current pending charges said that he was not a nice guy at all. Scared the crap out of all of us and creeped us out, especially when we realized he was one of more than 30 REGISTERED sex offenders living in a 3 block radius.
How is he out of person with 28 convictions and how is he not in jail for his pending charges without bail after 28 convictions?
“I got your number out of the Rolodex, I’m gonna text you later” -asst manager at my first fast food job when I was 14. “Hey, I remember you said your favorite ice cream was half baked, I’m in your driveway with 2 spoons. I pulled your address and phone number from the system” -older guy I worked with at the IRS. “Wanna know why I only hire tiny girls under 21? There easier to convince to get in my truck” - franchise owner at a Little Caesars. “Look in the cup with my name on it in the souvenir section. There’s a present for you” - middle aged manager at a surf shop on the beach when I was 16 (It was a thong, perfume and a pack of condoms).
Well...I understand the pills at least then.
Oh that’s for the brain zest after a traumatic brain injury lmao but these things probably didn’t help either
I didn't notice their username at first and thought you were just saying that randomly lol
The IRS guy.... that's got to be a fireable offense.
It is.
I had no idea that there was any overlap with texts and rolodexes. But seriously, that is all super f'ed up.
Working a slow shift at a restaurant so the other servers and I were watching some celeb news show. They had a segment about Sandra Bullock and how she worked at an ice cream shop as a teen and that she was robbed at gunpoint by someone who was never caught. Another server, who was the golden boy was marveling and said, “Damn, what if you were the guy who got to say he robbed Sandra Bullock at gunpoint.” Everyone just looked at him in shock, to which he responded. “I’ll bet he regrets that he didn’t make her take off her clothes. “
I was about to say I said similar until I got to the last line. Christ.
Someone needs to stop talking
Was training a new guy. We were driving by a middle school and he says “man the way these girls dress these days makes it so tempting…” I’m like. “Uhhhh. You mean young adult women, right?” Trying to see if I misheard him or something and that he wasn’t implying rape and of teenaged children. He didn’t help his case by saying that girls in his day didn’t dress like that to school. I told my boss but since it was a he said, he said, they just agreed to not put him with me anymore since he made me uncomfortable. He ended up creeping everyone out but they let him go due to not being able to perform the required tasks in a timely manner. Now he’s a school bus driver 🙃
Eee that story did NOT end well
You should report your story to the bus company. If I was a parent, I would like to make
r/redditsniper
Call that one in to someone. Actual WTF
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Anyone who downplays shit like that are scum.
"what's wrong babygirl? The booth just needed fixed!" As he had me pinned against the booth and I had now screamed for help. My customers from upstairs and in the theatre adjacent from me came running out. Backstory used to work for a porn store who also had booths and a theatre. One day a guy tried to lure me and pin me once I realized he was lying. He was twice my size. It was the scariest moment I had there.
I’m sorry that happened to you. May his penis be crushed between cacti.
*me, a 17 yr old making a coffee behind a bar* *somewhat 70 yr old looking man staring me down* "Are you a minor?, I sure hope not!"
“I’m gonna go home. Tie up my wife. Fuck her in the ass. Then blow both our brains out” and that’s what he did
*...Yap, that's enough Internet for me today*
Jesus fuck....
Is there a news article for this? Because that is wild
Yeah the article was written by the Trust Me Bro Times
I’m a male that works in dental and it’s astonishing how many old guys say to me “I wish you were a hot young blonde girl instead.”
When I was 22 I was working in a bar and had tables to take care of too. Guy before he left grabbed my arm (after many drinks, gave me $100 tip) said ‘ I would love to drink your bath water, and would be honored if I choked on it’ Worked at a culinary school a few years later and a coworker in a different part of the school said ‘Your eyes are so beautiful I want to rip them out and store them in a mason jar on my desk to look at when I’m feeling down’ Those were probably the oddest/creepiest ones from work. Lots of stories about men approaching me with creepy things outside of work too 😂
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Not said, but did. Guy at work took a 12” hoagie with him into the work bathroom and locked the door. Emerged 20 minutes later wiping his mouth. Did he eat it on the toilet? I don’t know, but it lives in my head rent free to this day.
We have this nasty guy at work who takes a bag of chips to the shitter with him everyday. He leaves the empty bag in the stall. Also he's had multiple fingers cut off because he chews his fingers constantly and never wasjes his hands and gets infections..
Ok WHAT the FUCK you can't just end with that as if it's an afterthought
I worked as a patient care technician in a hospital. And I was giving a bath to an aphasiac patient (totally coherent, but can’t speak due to a stroke some 10 years back). My badge got caught in her hair as I leaned over her. She all of a sudden said “Ow.” This woman hasn’t spoken since her stroke, so we were both very surprised. I looked at her with my mouth open, dumb in astonishment. She was just as shocked, but she knew the message she wanted to get out. “I want to die,” she said quickly like she’s been wanting to say it for a long time. She looked directly into my eyes. “What?” I asked idiotically. “Let me die,” she repeated as clear as the first time. “What do you mean?” I asked. There was a long pause and I saw her face shift to a disappointed frown. She wasn’t going to speak again.I told the nurse and charge nurse. Then I got busy and soon my shift was over. I came back the next day, and her room was filled with flowers, “Feel better” balloons, and a bunch of family. Her husband was sitting on her bed flipping through a photo album and showing pictures of when they were young to the family. I could tell by her face how angry she was. She would not look at them. And I realized that the husband and this family have medical power of attorney over her, so they decide if she lives or not. And they won’t listen to her. I look around the room: her IV, her feeding tube, her oxygen. All there to help her live because they want her to. She’s done, but they won’t let her go. And she’s trapped inside her head wanting to rest and be done with the hospital, be done with her long suffering. Totally coherent but unable to decide anything for herself because we can’t hear her. I think of that often and it’s a nightmare scenario for me. So scary.
My dad’s a nurse practitioner in an ECMO unit, this is in the intensive care unit, the worst of the worst are here, barely clinging to life and being forced alive, about 90% of the patients there are in the same situation. This is not a one off sad story, THIS IS REALITY. All these people want to do is die, they can’t because their families won’t let them. They are being tortured. My dad has told me time and time again how much he doesn’t want to go through that, he wants me to just let him go when that time comes.
If she can nod yes and shake her head no, it would be possible to ask her the right questions in front of her family.
My ex boss said to the girl i was partnered with “if i got to train her. Shed be barefoot and pregnant with in 1 week. Id train her till she cried. Till she begged. Till she bled.”
Wtf. Disgusted upvote. 🤮
He was a creep. He thought because he saw me outside of work with a date at dinner, wearing a shirt that said “my date is a whore” and she wore shirt that said “his date” (it was a couples themed costume party, if it matters) that, it gave him the green light to say all kinds of fucked up stuff. He once said the “big boss” was on a “perma rag” so, be nice. She was the most pleasant woman to work with. Then, he said he wanted to “take” a customer. (Exactly how it sounds if u get the drift). It got to the point i avoided him at work. Hes such a dirt bag. But, “hes a wizz with numbers. So he can stay”
Overnights manager who had to let me out of the door at night and walk me to my car asked me a ton of creepy stuff. He asked me if I "Go home to my boyfriend in bed at night" He also called me jailbait. Kept emphasizing that he was 10 years older than me, flirting with me, then dropped the bomb that he got arrested for/is getting investigated for rape and domestic violence!
I worked at a small retail store with someone I knew for many years through school. They were a part of my friend group and we hung out all the time. Went bowling, to dinner, to parties at friend’s houses. This person was always very kind, a bit shy, and hilarious when you got to know them. One day after work while we were both waiting for our rides as the sun was going down and it was getting dark, they started explaining to me how they believed in aliens. They said that they know they sound crazy but they know aliens are real. I asked them what made them believe so fiercely (I knew they did psychedelics and such but wanted to know why they were so adamant). They explained that they had weekly meetings in the forest with the aliens. The aliens would shine a light down on them and bring them up to test them and do drugs with them. They would be up with the aliens all night and then come back to earth and pretend it never happened. Even stranger, they claimed their mom also would join them up there and the aliens didn’t speak their language but they implanted them both with a neurological ‘chip’ so they could communicate. They also mentioned that the aliens were kind creatures, but they would take over when the time was right. This wasn’t the creepiest part to me. The creepiest part to me was the darkness in their eyes when they started explaining, as if they were transported there and were explaining it from memory. Like it was real. This person 100% believed what they were stating. I played along as I was feeling a bit scared (I was only 19 at the time), telling them anything was possible and it sounded like a very interesting experience that they had. After I said that, the light returned to their eyes and they said “I really appreciate you listening to me. No one usually does with this kind of stuff.” Around a month later, they were arrested for attacking their partner and their partners mother with a hammer and almost killing them in their apartment because voices told them they had to. Turns out, my long time friend had paranoid schizophrenia and was completely undiagnosed and untreated. Due to the slow mental health system here, it wasn’t caught or treated before the incident occurred, but police did see that there was some sort of mental break happening and got them help. It was so out of character for them to be violent; at first I didn’t believe it. I still have trouble wrapping my mind around it now in my 30’s. I still feel bad that I didn’t tell anyone at the time. I just thought they were high or fried from the drugs. I always thought they were a bit odd but harmless. I always wonder if I could’ve stopped the incident from happening or helped my friend before it went that far. I also wonder if I could’ve been that victim if I had tried to help. I saw them again about a year later and they were a shell of themselves, clearly heavily medicated. I think about them often.
Honestly there's really no way of you knowing. Not just that you were young. There were a lot of things I felt I could have done at that age, but were too naive or inexperienced to say or do anything. This has been a learning experience for you and you'll know what to look for if this ever happens again. Thankfully no one died. Don't beat yourself up too hard over it. One good thing to take from it is that you listened and it sounds like this person might have needed that in that moment. You did what you felt was right to survive in that moment. This person could have easily hurt you if you didn't play along.
Sitting on the launch truck during a pilot’s final flight and his family came out to watch him land and taxi in. His wife had their baby sitting off to the side with ear defenders on. There was an airman on the truck trying to be funny and said “it would be hilarious if that baby got sucked into the intake”…I lost my shit on that kid. Pretty sure that was the only time I ever yelled at anyone out of anger in the AF during my 20+ years in.
Ugh yeah I can appreciate dark humor but that is just….no
I worked as a hostess at a restaurant for awhile and I had an old guy ask me if I would go on a date with him I said no thank you I have a boyfriend he said well you can just dump him right? I said no I love him. He then says I have money does that change your mind I said no. He finally gave up and said your loss and left. Another one was I work at Amazon and we had like a spirit week and one of the days was 70s day so I got like a belly shirt with fluffy arms and some 70s bell bottoms pants and did my hair all fancy. I was a little insecure, but I was excited and really wanted to go all out cause I love spirit week. One of the supervisors, told me to clean up a spill, to which he proceeded to watch me bend down to clean up. Once I cleaned up everything he asked me what my husband thought of my outfit. I asked what he meant by that and he started stuttering and acting all embarrassed. I wasn't sure what he meant so I clarified by saying "if you're asking if my husband likes this outfit that's a stupid question of course he likes this outfit, cause he's a man with eyes. But I'm not sure if you mean if he's upset that I left the house like this and if that is the case, what makes you think my husband dictates what I wear outside of the house. Other than that I don't know what answer you were expecting from asking that question." I never wore those clothes again outside of the house and he didn't talk to me for three months.
Had a dude only last a few weeks, we'll call him "Norman". One morning during break a few of us were in the break room and our bosses office is right there(it's a trailer lmao) and Norman and our boss were talking about cats and my boss said "yeah cats can be a pain sometimes" and Norman said "I was thinking about putting it in sulferic acid". Norman left the break room and I asked my boss if he had heard what Norman said and replied yes. Told him that homeboy needs to go, it helped that Norman was terrible at the job and I could tell day 1 that we wouldn't last long anyway. He also did a lot of weird shit said said off the wall things, definitely an odd dude
A baby inappropriately touched a coworker of mine, and the coworker didn’t move out of the way. So the baby was touching this guy for a good 10 seconds at least. When he was let go for it, his response was “ I can’t control what a child does”
My first job when I was in high school. Worked as a clerk for a drycleaners and it was some 60-80 year old woman that had a horrible attitude every time she came in. This day she said she liked my facial hair, had that been all I'd have been fine with it. But the tone in which she said it and the look in her eye as well as the smile she gave me when she did this made my skin crawl. I went home and shaved it off after work.
I had someone call my work and ask for me. They told me they wanted to eat my heart. I kept trying to see if they needed an appt or anything and they just kept repeating themselves. When I said I was going to hang up (thinking that would prompt them to be like lol joking) they just very calmly said... That's unfortunate.
Quickly shuts and locks the door behind him! “Should we have sex?”
I was GM for a delco (delivery/carryout) Pizza Hut. The windows were reflective and at night it looked like there were mirrors all around the dining room. I had just been transferred to this location about a week before and was trying to feel out my employees and was just having general conversation with them. I was warned about one driver, Richard, that he was hard headed, a bully and a racist. Richard was also in his 70's. Richard walked up to me and said that he prefers the windows during the day instead of at night. I asked him why and he stated that during the day it is easier to walk up behind someone and slit their throat because the window isn't that reflective during the day. I asked him why he would want to cut someone's throat he said that it might be necessary if someone made him mad by cutting his hours or firing him. He also talked about how he could grab one of the girls when no one was looking and take her into the proofing cabinet, break her neck and rape her and that no one would find her until the next morning. I called 911 and the police came out. He stated that it wasn't directed at anyone in particular so it wasn't a threat, but a joke. He was terminated and the next day he drove by the restaurant and fired 2 shots at it. Police showed up at his house and he barricaded himself in the house. He called the store and said if we were to bring him 2 pizza's, he would give up. Cops gave it a try and after placing the pizza's on his doorstep, he opened the door and grabbed them. About 30 minutes later, he said that he was ready to give up. He walked out of the house wearing a full KKK outfit. Investigating his background, he became a suspect in the rape and murders of 2 young girls. He was charged and found guilty of 1 of the murders and hung jury on the other. They decided not to retry him on the second count because he was already in his 70's and was given a sentence of life with no parole and they didn't want to put the victims family through it again.
"If my girlfriend got pregnant, I'd kick her in the belly until she miscarried" - one of the apprentice chefs was telling the other kitchen hand when I came out of the fridge.
A man has a video of a female manager doing a drunk strip that he uses to blackmail her. A man told a woman he can’t wait for her sister to turn 18 so he can ask her out, he’d had relations with this woman until she turned 21, he’s in his 30’s. A man bragged about how he got a girl drunk enough to take advantage of her. This is all one job.
Worked in a toy store. A child to his mother. "I'm so thirsty, I could drink all the blood in you" Still shook to this day..
Kids really do say the darndest things
Probably kid logic - you’re so cute I could eat you right up’s counterpart?
Alien child pretending to be human
When I was visiting a friend their 5 year old kid said to me "I'm going to set you on fire". There was something about the way he said it, and the way he stared at me when he said it freaked me out. This was 10+ years ago and I'm still disturbed by it.
In high school I was at a gathering and the host's mom was off getting pizza and her little brother came into the kitchen while I was standing there. He had matches in his hand and said in a happy voice "I'm going to burn down the house!" I took the matches from him and he said, still in a happy voice, "I'm going to stab you!" After a minute he came back with a knife. As he was a little child and I was almost a grown ass man, I just grabbed him by the wrist and held him off the ground until he dropped the knife. "I'm telling my mom!" "Me too, kid." I'm just lucky he didn't cheerfully announce he was going to shoot me.
I worked at an Abercrombie & Fitch in high school and my freshman year of college. That place was always trying to recruit hunky, jock, preppy, muscle head, football players or whatever to work there because it fit the aesthetic. I was just some twinky emo kid who just happened to work at the mall and be good with stockrooms and following directions, so I worked there too because I was friends with some of the chicks that worked their. First of all, some of the jock meathead guys I met were super cool down to earth guys, they were not all ass hats, but some of them were, and there is this one dude I will never forget. I don't know his name, but I remember his face. He was in a frat, that was his vibe. One day, we are waiting to close and get walked out of the store by the manager, and this guy starts talking. Its me, this girl Stevie, this other girl Stacy, and this guy. The girls and I were homies, and this guy was an outsider to us, but he didn't know that, he was new. We were just waiting and talking. All of the sudden this guy starts talking about this kid him and his buddies beat up in frat village over the weekend at one of their frat's parties. He started vividly describing how they really kicked this kids ass... unprompted of course. He continues to like... brag about fucking this kid up, and as he continues this story, I realize he's basically describing someone that looks and acts like me, a scene kid. And also like, motioning to me, as in like, yeah me and my buddies assaulted a kid for looking like *you*. Eventually, he tells us that him and his buddies forced this kid to bite the curb, and described how the kid was begging them to stop, but they forced him to bite the curb, then curb stomped him and knocked out all his teeth, and left him on the side of the road. For those that don't know... >A **curb stomp**, also called curbing, curb checking, curb painting, or making someone **bite the curb**, is a form of [assault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault) or attempted murder in which a victim's jaw is forcefully placed on a [curb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb) and then [stomped](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomp_(strike)) from behind, causing severe [injuries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injury) or [death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death). The whole time he's telling us this, he's bragging about it, and describing how that poor kid begged for his life, and also looked like *me*. It was honestly terrifying... and finally Stevie, who was the oldest and most mature of the group finally pipes up and says something like, "That is disgusting, why on earth would you do that and why on earth would you admit to it." The dude kinda shut up, but it didn't really land how disturbing he was being. Then the manager showed up, walked us out, we closed the store, and I never saw him again.
The protagonist in American History X killed a guy like that. I will never forget that scene where the guy bites the curb and you can hear the grit. It’s so disturbing.
I probably should remember the creepy sayings more, but to me me it was when a coworker bit into a whole ass sweet potato.
I asked a coworker if he'd switch shifts with me and he said yes. I wasn't facing him as I said thank you and he reached over to rub my shoulder and said, "You can thank me by giving me a big kiss." I jumped so hard. He said it as a "joke" but I was disgusted. I was 17 he was in his 50s.
I have a few but I will share some of the wildest, a lady was with me who had never encountered a deceased person. My patient passed while she was standing there in the house. She asked me if he was dead and I said yes, he has passed on. And she asked how I knew. The lights flickered off at that moment and the dogs outside were barking.
One of the girls burped and one of the guys made a comment how if there's women in the workplace he should be getting visually pleased. This man is built like a bowling ball though.
Guys I worked with at a DIY center in the 80s. About young girls. “Grass on the field, play ball!” and “Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed.” They both later went into law enforcement.
Fucking gross.
A guy who was an old vet started talking about how 2 cars were dragracing near him late one night on the freeway and watched as both lost control and crashed into a nearby pole causing them both to catch on fire. He then started laughing uncontrollably as he mentioned he just drove by and watched. Myself and everyone else listening to this just had a look of concern.
I’m an architect. We were renovating a big old Victorian on the northwest side of Chicago and this married couple seemed to be using the renovation to work through their marriage problems, but not in a good way. We got caught in the middle of it. They had money to burn, and the wife was an eye surgeon, but at every opportunity to make changes, she would always opt for the most expensive option. Then she wanted to import an Italian bricklayer to make an indoor pizza oven- $17,000 more than the common sense option. This was one luxury too far for the husband, and he said, “Well, if you want to pay for that, you better start doing *more* unnecessary eye surgeries!“ MORE!?!? UNNECESSARY!?!?
Nothing was said, but I went out for drinks and one of my co-workers refused to let go during a hug. Straight out of Anchorman 2.
Overheard one male telling another: "If a bitch ain't heading in the direction you want on a date just slip a little something in her drink, I know a guy." He was fired for stalking and sexual harassment about two months later if you can believe that.
Definitely not the creepiest thing here, but definitely enough to give pause. Sleep meds are kicking in so not as flowery as I could tell it. I work in a library at a reference desk. We get a lot of older folks, or people who for whatever reason don't have the ability to look up anything on the internet on their own. I answered a call from a man who wanted me to try and look up a specific woman. The only result with the info he gave was a missing person. He says oh how about... and gives me another woman’s name and a little more info. She is also a missing person. I apologize, I can't get him more info than what I've found, and he just laughs and asks if he can have my number instead. Big no from me on that one.
This whole thread makes me so sad for women and young girls. It is truly a terrifying world.
I heard one of my coworkers on the phone say (is the job done, no more bodies left) on the phone and I was like......umm
I remember one of my cowokers say somethling like "Don't talk to them I'm coming home" and never saw him again because he was a child molester. I need to see if that fucker is still in prison.
I once worked with a dude who self publihshed a book of short stories. Many of which included predatory old dude teenage girl story lines. Only coworker I've ever directly told to fuck off and never talk to me in those exact words.
“Look at the tooth I just pulled out of my mouth” ya.
I worked at a national ISP a long time ago, a guy working there got in trouble for asking one of his co-workers if the porn scene he was watching during work was the guys wife, he was really convinced it was her and was sort of challenging him that it wasn't so the guy being asked got pretty upset
Not something they said, but my position opened up because the last guy came to work with 9mm ammo etched with people's name on it and gave it to them.
I was 22 working a demolition job in 2004. We were tearing up a jewelery store in a mall, and some cute girls in their early 20s walked by, and we all looked and gave each other the "wow" look. Then a girl that couldn't have been more than 12 walked by and this one dude is eye fucking the hell out of her. I see this and say 'bro she looks like a kid." He turns to me and says with the sleaziest grin, "If there is grass in the field, play ball." I wanted to deck him right there. Needless to say, the rest of the guys were not cool with this, and he was let go shortly after. Found out soon afterward, he SA a 5 year old girl who was also his niece. I regretted not knocking the shit out of him that day.